A Brief, Happy Announcement

The Burien Actors Theatre, a small but well respected professional company in these parts, has decided to give my one-act play, Dr. Kritzinger’s 2 O’Clock first prize in the One-Act category of the Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival. This means the show will go up six times between May 1st and May 25th, that I will appear for discussion panels after at least some of the performances, and that I will get a not-especially-large amount of money.

Winning competitions of this sort is one of the writing life’s few compensations. It provides a brief respite from the insecurity that gnaws at us the rest of the time. Unfortunately, it also makes us insufferably pleased with ourselves for a brief period. I’m combatting this by reminding myself that this means my job has only started, and there are many, many ways this could all fail before the curtain rises.